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lenocinari

lenocinari [CL] 1 to behave as a bawd, to live unchastely. c675 ut nequaquam prostibula vel lupanarium nugas, in quis pompulentae prostitutae delitescunt, ~ante luxu adeas Aldh. Ep. 3; ~ari, lecaciter vivere Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 324; ecclesiam, militibus multis ‥ refertam, oppressam a sagittariis, a ~antibus conculcatam Diceto YH 380; ~abuntur, i. exercebant lenocinium, i. libidem [sic] GlSid f. 144va; res ecclesiasticas consumpsit ~ando Eul. Hist. I 417; res etiam ecclesiae †leocinando [l. lenocinando] consumpsit Brompton 978. 2 to blandish, allure, charm, flatter. ~antes, conciliantes ‥ †lemociniat, conciliat GlC L 108, 153; ubi ~ante splendore fucorum ars spectabilis rapiebat animos W. Malm. GP I 43; c1184 ~antis seculi ‥ vanitatibus Ep. J. Exon. 4 p. 226; ‘sopori tuo ~abuntur’ [Sidon. Ep. II 2. 14], i. allicient te sopori quoniam lenones Romanice sunt amacheurs GlSid f. 144va.

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